three kinds of wonderful
i have not been cooking at all in a while.
in a desperate attempt to save the remains of two farm boxes i found a lovely surprise today ... a violet carrot! i've never seen one before and i did not even know i had some delivered this week (stupid me, i am in such a hurry these days that i don't even read the bill of delivery in my farm box).
the violet ancestor of my regular (and much loved) orange carrot is indeed very pretty, but i had no idea that there are still so many colourful versions around!
and with the yellow carrot still in my fridge from last week i figured i'd make a carrot soup. simple, quick, plain old carrot soup. but three times as delicious as usually!
1 leek
3 carrots
olive oil
0,5 l
water
salt
- cut the leek and fry it in a tables spoon of olive oil
- cut carrots into cubes, you can leave some dices for decoration
- when the leek starts to brown add half a liter of water and bring to a boil
- throw in the carrots and boil for about 10 minutes
- fish out the dices you'll need for decoration
- with a handblender, mash up the soup
- season to taste (i like salt only, but you can of course use what ever herb you like)
- ladle onto a soup plate and decorate with the colorful discs. i also decorated / seasoned the soup with pumpkin seed oil
not only very pretty, but very yummie as well!
5 Kommentare:
Welcome back to cooking. I can't pretend that carrot, carrot & carrot is my favourite soup (carrot & ginger, carrot & coriander, carrot & cumin...) but colours do improve a dish. I mean, you try eating something grey, grey and grey or brown, brown and brown (chocolate excepted of course).
gosh, ginger!!! brilliant! why didn't I think of that!? damn, this might be the reason why YOU are the chef and I am just a girl that cooks every once in a while ... well, apart from that i really love, love & love carrots :)
I've never even heard of a violet carrot! Looks so intriguing... If I ever see it around here, I'll certainly try it.
For more information about the various colours of carrots, visit the web site - World Carrot Museum.
gerda!! what colours your shapely carrots have :P (LOL). can you even get those from your regular market or like us, in a specialty place? great pix. love carrot soup; i also did one a while back with pomegranate molasses. i should make some again.
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